Tech Stack
AWSCloudDynamoDBEC2NoSQLPythonPyTorchTensorflow
About the role
- Hiring, building and leading a small-to-medium sized teams of highly creative software professionals in a dynamic, fast-paced environment by providing clear direction, delegating tasks, and setting priorities. Ensure team alignment with project goals and deadlines.
- Understanding and driving Lean, Systems Thinking software engineering principals
- Establishing best practices for software engineering to ensure high-quality services that can be easily run in production
- Collaborating with architects and other technology leaders to help provide technical direction to your team that ensures that design and architecture choices align with best practices, scalability, and performance needs.
- Mentor team members, helping them grow their technical and professional skills. Provide regular feedback and performance reviews.
- Address any conflicts or challenges within the team, fostering a positive and productive work environment.
- Work closely with product managers, stakeholders, and other departments to define project scope, estimate time frames, and plan sprints.
- Break down projects into manageable tasks and assign them to team members based on their skillsets, ensuring a balanced workload. Track the team's progress, adjusting priorities or timelines when necessary to ensure projects are delivered on time.
- Act as a liaison between the engineering team and other departments, such as product management, design, and operations. Ensure clear communication about requirements, timelines, and deliverables.
- Participate in writing code, especially for complex or critical parts of the project. Technical Lead Managers balance coding with their leadership duties to stay engaged with the technical aspects of the project.
- Building trust and rapport with your direct reports. Help team members set personal and professional development goals, offering opportunities for growth and learning, such as new projects, workshops, or mentorship to ensure that engineers feel that Rithum is a place they can learn and grow through their career.
- Lead by example to help ensure that your team upholds company standards with a Client First and Say-Do ethos.
Requirements
- 3+ years as Senior Software Engineer or higher
- 2+ years with team-lead or other leadership experience
- Excellent interpersonal and communication skills, with the ability to inspire and motivate a diverse team.
- Practical, hands-on experience with modern programming languages
- Hands-on experience with AWS technologies, especially EC2, ECS, AWS OpenSearch, Lambda, S3, DynamoDB, Kinesis
- 2+ years of AI/ML experience with a strong technical and strategic focus.
- 2+ years’ experience in Python, TensorFlow/PyTorch, or cloud platforms,
- Proven leadership in high-impact AI projects, with a history of mentoring team members and developing innovative methods that drive departmental objectives
- Bachelor's degree or higher in Computer Science or a closely related field (preferred)
- Experience working with NoSQL databases (preferred)
- Experience with performance tuning and optimization techniques for high scale systems (preferred)
- Experience working with development teams in multiple time zones (preferred)
- Experience with e-commerce, retail, online marketplaces, or digital advertising (preferred)
- 2+ years expertise in machine learning algorithms, NLP, computer vision, or large-scale deployment (preferred)
- 2+ years’ experience in creating data systems for feature stores or vector databases (preferred)